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Wisdom.

Timeless truths from the greatest minds of every era

“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

Alexandre Dumas

“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

Martin Luther King

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.”

“A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.”

Russian proverbs

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”

Miguel de Cervantes

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.”

“Soon or late the strong needs the help of the weak.”

French proverbs

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.”

Jordan Peterson

“Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.”

Richard Branson

“It is always the worst wheel that creaks.”

French proverbs

“He that does amiss never lacks excuses.”

Italian proverbs

“To whom God gives an office he gives understanding also.”

German proverbs

“In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you, there just has to be someone who wants to.”

“We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.”

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.”

“Drugs are not always necessary, belief in recovery always is.”

“We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.”

Albert Einstein

“There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.”

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

“Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.”

“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“It always seems impossible, until it is done.”

“Never spend money before you have it.”

Thomas Jefferson

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Always say less than necessary.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

Richard Feynman

“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.”

Charlie Chaplin

“Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.”

John Churton Collins

“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.”

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

Abigail Van Buren

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.”

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”

Benjamin Franklin